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Shehram Mokhtar (University of Oregon) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Islamabad and the Tharparker district of Sindh. Mokhtar's research centered around folkloric practices- music, dance, poetry, and storytelling of Pakistani rural culture.

Noor Habib was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for six months. Habib's research focuses on the work of the Urdu modernist poet Miraji, exploring both his work which represents radical, contrarian politics and his translations which offered...

Pei-Ling Huang (Harvard University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Sindh and South Punjab, Pakistan. Pei-Ling Huang is "interested in the Sh?h Jo R?g, the oral musical tradition performed by the faq?rs of Sh?h Lat?f."

The Sajjad Zaheer Digital Archive, organized by the University of Texas at Austin South Asia Institute, seeks to consolidate writings and collections of Syed Sajjad Zaheer (1905-1973), renown Urdu litterateur and political activist.

Zain Mian was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research on Lahori media for ten weeks. Mian "worked in close collaboration with the GC University archives, which house the entire print run of Nuq?sh, a significant post-Partition literary magazine then edited by Ahmed...